Explosive AI Invasion on Amazon: E-Books Could Be Deadly

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Advocating for poisonous mushrooms and stealing famous authors’ IP — has AI gone rogue?

Nowadays, when searching for e-books on Amazon, beware of AI-generated junk books. These books are not only bland but can even be deadly.

Some e-books on Amazon give advice. The books are about mushrooms. For example, the book “The Wild Mushroom Cookbook” is one. Another is “Top Mushroom Field Guide for the Southwest.” These books say to identify mushrooms by their smell and taste.

The advice to sniff or taste mushrooms is dangerous. As the saying goes, all mushrooms are edible, but some only once.

Experts interviewed by The Guardian warned, “This seems to encourage people to use tasting as a method of identification. It should never be done.”

Some mushrooms mentioned, like the “lion’s mane,” are edible but protected in the UK. They taste like a sewing machine, if you must know.

Originality.ai is a company. It checks if text is written by AI. It found those mushroom books scored 100% as AI-written.